Such caution seems especially warranted with regard to the sharp rise in equity prices during the past two years. These gains have obviously raised questions of sustainability.
ALAN GREENSPANAn almost hysterical antagonism toward the gold standard is one issue which unites statists of all persuasions.
More Alan Greenspan Quotes
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The number one problem in today’s generation and economy is the lack of financial literacy.
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Unfortunately, Senator, nobody knows where the next innovative idea is coming from.
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What we have found over the years in the marketplace is that derivatives have been an extraordinarily useful vehicle to transfer risk from those who shouldn’t be taking it to those who are willing to and are capable of doing so.
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Fear and euphoria are dominant forces, and fear is many multiples the size of euphoria. Bubbles go up very slowly as euphoria builds.
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Fiat money in extremis is accepted by nobody. Gold is always accepted.
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Deficit spending is simply a scheme for the ‘hidden’ confiscation of wealth.
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Amateurs want to be right. Professionals want to make money.
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Any onset of increased investor caution elevates risk premiums and, as a consequence, lowers asset values and promotes the liquidation of the debt that supported higher asset prices.
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History has not dealt kindly with the aftermath of protracted periods of low risk premiums.
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You can’t have the capitalist system if an increasing number of people think it is unjust.
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The only effective regulation lies in the propensity of customers to choose alternatives, of investors to move their funds elsewhere and of labour to acquire technical skills’.
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Some succeed for a time. But while there may occasionally be mis-configurations among market prices that allow abnormal returns, they do not persist.
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To succeed, you will soon learn, as I did, the importance of a solid foundation in the basics of education – literacy, both verbal and numerical, and communication skills.
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The guiding purpose of the government regulator is to prevent rather than to create something.
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The probability of ten consecutive heads is 0.1 percent; thus, when you have millions of coin tossers, or investors, in the end there will be thousands of very successful practitioners of coin tossing, or stock picking.
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